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(c. 1845 - 1919)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
From Shopiere, he enlisted in Company D, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry on 20 April 1861 at 15 or 16 years old.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 14 September 1862 on South Mountain, and lost a leg.
The rest of the War
He was hospitalized in Frederick, MD. Discharged 4 March 1863 for disability.
After the War
He married a woman from Jefferson, MD and worked in the Post Office Department in Washington, DC.
References & notes
Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Further details from family genealogists.
Birth
c. 1845
Death
1919
1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 357 - 358 [AotW citation 10165]